At Sundance

Feb 12, 2018 — In “Twin Peaks: The Return, or What Isn’t Cinema?,” a four-part essay at Reverse Shot, Nick Pinkerton first stakes out a position. Referring to one of Marcel Duchamp’s most famous pieces, he writes: “For a hundred years now it’s been...

Feb 2, 2018 — For nearly a decade now, the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville has been a low-key event of high significance to the world of music. Writing about the 2016 edition in the New York Times, Ben Ratliff noted that it “has...

Feb 1, 2018 — The Tracking Board’s Jeff Sneider hears from “multiple sources” that Clint Eastwood—seen above in Gran Torino (2008)—is “circling” The Mule, a project based on Sam Dolnick’s 2014 article for the New York Times Magazine about Leo Sharp, a ninety-year-old courier...

Jan 24, 2018 — The forty-seventh edition of the International Film Festival Rotterdam opens today and runs through February 4. Over a month ago now, we started tracking the lineup, which the IFFR unveiled bit by bit every few days, culminating with the publication...

Jan 22, 2018 — The twenty-fourth annual Screen Actors Guild Awards were the big televisual event of the weekend, but let’s mention first that Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water “took the top prize at the Producers Guild Awards on Saturday, an honor...

Jan 17, 2018 — “My appreciation for his inspiring and innovative cinema grows deeper as the years go by,” writes Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa in an essay that Jonathan Rosenbaum’s posted on his site, “Reflections on Kiarostami’s Two-Way Mirrors.” A new and expanded edition of their...

Jan 15, 2018 — Big announcement today from the Berlin International Film Festival, whose sixty-eighth edition runs from February 15 through 25. Following the first round of titles slated for the Competition and Berlinale Special revealed last month, the Berlinale’s now added another thirteen....

Jan 13, 2018 — New York. Martin Scorsese Presents Republic Rediscovered: New Restorations from Paramount Pictures is a two-part series organized by Dave Kehr, a curator in the film department of the Museum of Modern Art, in association with The Film Foundation and Paramount...

Jan 10, 2018 — Before looking back on the highlights of his 2017 in an entry for Filmmaker, Vadim Rizov has a note or two on attending the recent New York Film Critics Circle awards dinner: The very concept of a critics’ award ceremony...

Jan 9, 2018 — In just over a week now, the winter festival season will begin as Sundance opens on January 18 to run through the 28th. On January 24, the International Film Festival Rotterdam will open and run through February 4; see the...